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Access into The Innermost Circle
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Have you ever been on the outside of some club or something and you wish you could get on the inside? You always felt you were just a total outsider? Well, what the Holy Spirit is for you is your access to get in into the innermost, the most powerful circle there is [...]
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Ambassadors of the Wind
Sunday, June 8th, 2008As John records the unfolding of the good news to the people of Jesus’ day, he makes continual reference to the two realms of reality: the physical world and the spiritual world. Spirit is not flesh. The two do not naturally coexist in the same world.
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Basic Spiritual Lessons
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009LESSON 1 – WE ARE CREATED BEINGS
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I. We were fashioned in love and longing by God.
A. We are not accidents, nor are we self-made people (Psalm100:3)B. He made us unique and individual (Psalm 139:13-16)C. He has marvelous plans for our life (Jeremiah 29:11)
II. We were made with purpose and destiny
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Being Filled with The Spirit and Speaking in Tongues
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
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This is edited from an audio teaching—this article explores the questions many believers have about the nature and evidence about being filled with the Spirit.
God, by His Spirit, wants to capacitate us to do things that we otherwise could not do on our own. The Holy Spirit causes us to be [...]- Available Formats:
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Cure for Anxiety
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Matthew 6:19-34
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Jesus delivers the Sermon on the Mount to a group of people who want to live their lives according to the power they witnessed when Jesus healed and performed miracles. They want to function like Jesus does. The power He has to transform life on earth is obvious. They now want that power in [...]- Available Formats:
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Discipleship
Thursday, October 9th, 2008“And the things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.” 2 Timothy 2:2
Entrust = paratithemi = place along side, present to, deposit (as a trust) commend, set before– commit to one’s charge
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Escape Spiritual Lies, Traps and Traumas
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009This is an edited transcription of a series of teachings prepared by Daniel while he was Senior Pastor of The Coastlands in Aptos, California. It addresses some of the questions that many of us might have asked like, “Why does the God of the Old Testament seem so vengeful? What are some of the lies [...]
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Excising Evil
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Psalm 106:24-48
They despised the pleasant land…and did not believe…but grumbled” (vs. 24-25).
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They joined themselves to Baal-Peor (v. 28-31).
It went hard with Moses because they were rebellious (vs. 32-33).
They served idols which became a snare to them (vs.34-36).
Their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their power”(v. 42).
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Following The One Who Leads Us
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009“For Thou art my rock and my fortress; For Thy name’s sake Thou wilt lead me and guide me”. PSALM 31:3
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“And I will lead the blind by a way they do not know, in paths they do not know I will guide them. I will make darkness into light before them and rugged places into [...]- Available Formats:
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Grabbing Truth
Thursday, April 17th, 2008“The Holy Spirit translates spiritual truth and language down into something that you and I can grab hold of.”
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Holy Spirit Leads Us
Saturday, June 14th, 2008Christ doesn’t really live inside you. Jesus is seated at the right side of the Father. The part of God that lives in you, that makes Christ alive to you, is the Holy Spirit and He does want to lead us in the way we should go.
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Holy Spirit’s Counsel
Thursday, June 12th, 2008My friends, there is a dimension of reality that is beyond things that we naturally know and understand. And it is such a tragedy that so many Christians having being born again in the spiritual dimension, after becoming alive in their spirit and now having the Spirit of God dwelling inside of them, it [...]
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Holy Spirit’s Intelligence
Monday, July 14th, 2008If you want to look at it this way, the Holy Spirit will make you a whole lot smarter than you are right now. Is that good news or what? What are they telling us about our brain cells? How many brain cells are we losing everyday? It’s frightening for those [...]
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Inner Wars: Fear
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009INTRODUCTION
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Even though the INNER WARS take place beneath the observable surface of our lives – in our emotions, thoughts and impressions – they will usually manifest themselves in the way we live life. Few INNER FOES manifest themselves more noticeably than fear. It grips our minds and compels us to do things that are otherwise [...]- Available Formats:
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Oh God, Help!
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008God intends for ordinary, everyday people to be dynamically empowered by the Holy Spirit. Ninety percent of the time they don’t even know what they are doing, but when they just keep exclaiming, “Oh God, help!” and continuing to pray amazing things happen.
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Ongoing Process of Salvation
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. For He had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the [...]
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Our Anointing
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Thou hast anointed my head with oil… Psalm 23:5b
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You are anointed by God.
Anointing with oil was a common practice in Bible days, and it was done as a symbolic act of consecration—the setting apart of someone for a particular office, service or position. Kings were anointed to rule; they had the right [...] -
Out from Under the Law
Friday, October 23rd, 2009How Do Believers Relate to the Law?
We as believers sometimes get confused about commandments and promises. After all, God gives both to His people. However, commandments and promises are very different types of statements:God’s commandments govern our behavior. God’s promises pledge His behavior.
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Commandments are about “right and wrong.” Promises are about favor and blessing.
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Power of Testimony
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Introduction: The point of church is to celebrate the Lord and to learn more about Him—who He is and what He does in our lives. While the best way to learn about Him is in His word, we can also discover many things about His character and power by listening to how He has worked [...]
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Power of the Bible
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009The Book of Psalms is so vast and filled with all manner of helpful truths to explore, that we cannot hope to examine all its content related to even one topic. But nowhere does the Bible speak more eloquently about itself than in Psalms. Here we will look at one of the best-known passages about [...]
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Sensing Our Inheritance
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him. For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. Now we have received, not [...]
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Spiritual Make-Up
Monday, January 7th, 2008As certainly as God has given you emotional make-up, He has given you a spiritual make-up as well. It doesn’t make you better than anyone else. It just makes you a little bit different than others.
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Taste the Lord’s Goodness!
Friday, October 10th, 2008“When He, the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all truth for He will not speak on His own initiative but whatever He hears He will speak and He will disclose to you of what will come. He shall glorify Me for He will take of Mine and shall disclose it to [...]
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That Same Spirit
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008What Jesus saw, what Jesus heard, He says it is now to your advantage because just as the Son of God hears and sees things, now by My Spirit there are going to be multiplied millions of people who have the same prerogatives, the same privilege, the same access to be instructed by God the [...]
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Timely and True Spirituals, Part 7
Sunday, December 18th, 2005Praying in the Spirit
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There are a lot of things we just can’t humanly achieve, if we’re honest with ourselves. But when we believe God at His word, we can look forward to an energy and an equipping that defies human ability. That’s what this continuation of Daniel’s series on “spirituals” will disclose in detail–how a [...]- Available Formats:
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Understanding the Counsel of God
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009I. What is Counsel?A. English and Greek B. HebrewC. Special advice and insight not available to just anyone—only to a close few.D. Foundational purposes, values or mentalities.E. Advice, guidance and direction to help put or keep someone on the best course.
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II. What are the Various Sources of Counsel?A. Natural Sources (JAMES 3:15)1. Our own heart and minda) JEREMIAH 17:9; ECCLESIASTES 9:33—The heart cannot [...]- Available Formats:
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We Have a Wonderful Counselor
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder. And He will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6-7
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What’s So Great About God?
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009WHY DID GOD GIVE US THE BIBLE ANYWAY?
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The thoughts and conclusions we come to about God on our own—without the Bible—are, at best, incomplete. At worst, they can be confused, or tragically inaccurate. Yet even the Bible itself can seem confusing. Have you ever read a passage of the Bible several times and found yourself [...]- Available Formats:
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